Day 85: Inner Cartoon

"All cartoon characters and fables must be an exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."

-Walt Disney

This week's theme is comic. Today, I attempted to turn myself into a comic character. I mostly did this by making the eyes disproportionately large, which tends to make things look cartoonish. I didn't make it a complete cartoon or comic because that's not as fun as trying to make something look real. The goal was to make it look just a little bit animated.

Day 84: Big Hat

"And all your future lies beneath your hat."

-John Oldham

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Day 83: Looking Down

"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's day to day living that wears you out."

-Anton Chekov

Day 82: Sia

"I'm biting the lighting, the good thing.

I'm minding what to see, the good things."

-Sia, "Clap your Hands"

I know I haven't really been trying to stick to my theme at all this week (the theme is supposed to be day), but when I think of something/ someone that I want to draw and feel inspired, I've got to go with it. Today, I got the urge to draw Sia, one of my favorite singer/songwriters, so I did. She's such an interesting person! And although I chose a very normal photo of hers to draw, she's very fashionably crazy at times, in an almost Gaga way (she's not a Gaga wanna be or anything, her career was established before Gaga was big). I was just afraid that because she also has semi-similar facial features to Gaga that if I drew a picture of her being a little zanier, people think I was attempting to draw Lady Gaga.

Day 81: Random Sketching

"The essence of drawing is the line exploring space."

-Andy Goldsworthy

I wasn't inspired to draw anything in particular today. And I've found that when that is the case, whatever I try to draw comes out pretty terrible. So today I just decided to practice sketching some random features.

Day 80: Mika

"Everybody's gonna love today, gonna love today!

Anyway you want to, anyway you've got to,

love, love me. Love, love me."

-Mika, "Love Today"

Day 79: Regina Spektor

"Outside the cars are beeping out a song just in your honor,

and though they do not know it, all mankind are now your brothers."

-Regina Spektor, "Human of the Year"

This doesn't have anything to do with day, but the idea to draw Regina Spektor occurred to be last week, and I've really wanted to draw her face since then. Her eyes are so interesting, I had to try drawing them! And because I had time today, I decided to attempt a sketch of Regina.